Re: [tied] IE numbers

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 10090
Date: 2001-10-10

On Tue, 09 Oct 2001 20:45:43 -0000, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>All that
>can be said about the form of the numeral "four" is that it looks as
>if it were a derivative in *-wr, i.e. *kWet-wr, collective *kW(e)t-
>wo:r, animate *kW(e)t-wor-es. All would be very nice if *kWet- were
>an identifiable verb root, but apparently it ain't.

Do you mean the ending of the verbal substantive (Hitt. -war, -wan-)?